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SPAIN: Still Cause

A project and exhibition by Christine Jones
8 February – 20 April 2014

Christine Jones is an artist and designer living in Falkirk
and was a recipient of the Visual Artist Award Scheme: Forth Valley in 2010 and
2013

SPAIN: Still Cause is a project and exhibition focused on the struggle for
justice and recognition which is ongoing in Spain post Franco. The project was inspired
by the photojournalist Gerda Taro (1910–37) and her work during the Spanish Civil
War (1936-9). She is believed to be the first female photojournalist to go to the
front-lines, and the first to die there. This interest in Taro developed into an
engagement with the legacy of the war and subsequent dictatorship (1939–75) and
the rise of protest and resistance in the evolution of the ‘historical memory’ movement
in Spain today.

Since April 2011 Christine has travelled to Spain meeting various
individuals. The exhibition includes a series of drawing and photographic works
based on this research and the people she met.

www.stillcause.blogspot.com
www.enmemoria2013.tumblr.com

The exhibition is dedicated to the memory of Gerda Taro.

Made possible with the
financial assistance of: The Visual Artists Award Scheme: Forth Valley and The Hope
Scott Trust